Lab #5

Part One: Research Directions
How do adolescents deal with the death of a parent?
1.Grieving process
2.Loss of a parent
3.Key moments in life where parents are needed
4.Psychological impacts of experience
5.Reactions to losing a parent
6.Support
7.Common/uncommon in lives
8.Sympathy of others
9.Feeling of incapability to help
10.Changed needed to be made
Part Two: Non-academic sources
From the traditional to the creative, there are many ways to remember a loved one at a wedding:

  • Creative ways to have our lost one present on your important day/Wedding day
  • Tribute
  • A way to comfort someone in an emotional time to make it
  • Different creative ways to have them there

http://psychcentral.com/lib/the-5-stages-of-loss-and-grief/-Psych Central

The 5 Stages of Loss and Grief:

  • Different stages, not necessarily in specific order
  • Stage1: Denial and Isolation- block of reality
  • Stage2: Anger
  • Stag3: Bargaining- If this then outcome will be different
  • Stage4: Depression- 2 types: 1) sadness and regret, loss 2)subtle, private (need comforting)
  • Stage5: Acceptance

“Remember, grieving is a personal process that has no time limit, nor one “right” way to do it”

http://www.cancercare.org/publications/66-helping_teenagers_who_have_lost_a_parent -Cancer Care
Helping Teenagers Who Have Lost a Parent

  • Each teenager’s grief experience is unique- Different factor of how to react
  • feeling different is uncomfortable, don’t want to be like an outsider
  • Teenagers need privacy, don’t force them to talk
  • Stick with daily routines
http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/parent-death-during-childhood/-Good Therapy

The Lifelong Effects for a Child After the Death of a Parent

  • “As the life span progresses and the individual reaches adulthood, the psychological and interpersonal consequences of this disturbance may manifest in long-term mental health problems”
  • Environment is important (Family)
  • “younger a child was at the time of the loss, the more likely they were to develop mental health problems, including anxiety, mood, or substance abuse issues”
10 Things That Changed Me After the Death of a Parent
  • Never prepared, grief never goes away
  • Could tear families a part or get them closer
  • Losing a parent makes you want to have a child so you could finish unfinished childhoods for them

Part Three: Academic sources

Kuntz, B. “Exploring the Grief of Adolescents After the Death of a Parent.” Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing. 4.3 (1991). Print.

“The study conclusions were that adolescents do grieve differently from children and differently from adults”

 

Stikkelbroek, Y, P Prinzie, Graaf R. de, Have M. Ten, and P Cuijpers. “Parental Death During Childhood and Psychopathology in Adulthood.” Psychiatry Research. 198.3 (2012): 516-20. Print.

Dietrich, DR. “Psychological Health of Young Adults Who Experienced Early Parent Death: Mmpi Trends.” Journal of Clinical Psychology. 40.4 (1984): 901-8. Print.

Ellis, J, C Dowrick, and M Lloyd-Williams. “The Long-Term Impact of Early Parental Death: Lessons from a Narrative Study.” Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 106.2 (2013): 57-67. Print.

Nickerson, A, D.E Hinton, I.M Aderka, S.G Hofmann, and R.A Bryant. “The Impacts of Parental Loss and Adverse Parenting on Mental Health: Findings from the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication.” Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. 5.2 (2013): 119-127. Print.

 

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